Lyrics to
Deep In The Motherlode

This version of Deep In The Motherlode was released by Genesis in 1978.

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Get out of the way fat man. You got something to do
Go fill up your hands till they’re shining up at you.
You gotta get out while there’s gold in the air
It’s falling like water, coming down from the hills.

Go West young man
Earn a dollar a day just like your family said.
You’re rolling your days right on into the night
The head of the line’s going way out of sight.
Go West young man like your family said

All along the wagons
All along the dusty trail.
Seventeen years not over a day
Like children in the wild.
Your mother’s milk still wet on your face
And no one to pray for your safe journey home.

Out beyond the desert
Across the mountains by the fall.
Servants who leave their masters house
Are walking all the way.
The golden fields that beckoned you
Are darkened by the years.

Go West Young Man
If you knew then what you know today
You’d be back where you started a happier man
And leave all the glory to those who have remained.

So Go West Young Man
Go West Young Man, like your family said.

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Genesis has released many songs over the years besides Deep In The Motherlode. Genesis released songs from 1969 to 2000 spanning across albums like From Genesis To Revelation, Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, A Trick Of The Tail, Wind And Wuthering, ...And Then There Were Three..., Duke, Abacab, Genesis, Invisible Touch, We Can't Dance, Calling All Stations, Genesis Archive 1967-1975, and Genesis Archives #2 1976-92. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Genesis.

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About Lyrics and Deep In The Motherlode by Genesis

The lyrics to Deep In The Motherlode are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Genesis in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Deep In The Motherlode are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Genesis and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Deep In The Motherlode back when it was created.

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